Six-year-old Jen-Noelle walks barefoot and alone for as long as two hours from her village to get to school. She has shoes, but the long walk through the mountains would ruin her only pair. Around her, there are no cars…
The BVM Legacy of Love is alive in the hearts of all who have been welcomed into their circle of friends. It flourishes in the hearts and actions of the global sisterhood working together for the greater good. That circle…
In their 2018 Team Talk, “Freedom and the Common Good,” BVM leadership asked sisters and associates to consider the following questions: What do we, who have vowed to live in and for the common good, have to say about taking…
“I heard it was your 185th birthday,” says Dan Brune to a smiling sister in the halls of Mount Carmel in Dubuque, Iowa. “You don’t look a day over 65.” “Bless you,” she laughs. These interactions are common for Dan…
A Letter from Mary Frances Clarke as Imagined by Mary Ann Zollmann, BVM As a way to bring the Ireland pilgrimage to a close, Mary Ann Zollmann, BVM wrote a letter imagining what BVM Foundress Mary Frances Clarke would say…
In honor of Clarke University’s 175th Anniversary, 27 visit the place where five young women answered God’s call.
“St. Mary’s spirit will continue for generations to be a vital element in the colorful mix that makes Chicago great,” writes Mary Herlihy, BVM in a 1976 Salt article when the school shut its doors. “It will live on in…
This article was published in Salt Magazine in 1976, the same year St. Mary's in Chicago closed. In it, author Mary Herlihy, BVM traces the history and impact of Chicago's first Catholic high school for women.